US3823215A - Process for producing variegated detergent bars - Google Patents

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US3823215A
US3823215A US00217110A US21711072A US3823215A US 3823215 A US3823215 A US 3823215A US 00217110 A US00217110 A US 00217110A US 21711072 A US21711072 A US 21711072A US 3823215 A US3823215 A US 3823215A
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  • a process for the manufacture of variegated detergent bars or cakes includes passing detergent compositions of similar solubilities and temperatures but of different colors, in solid plastic states along substantially parallel paths, out of physical contact with each other but preferably in thermal contact with each other, extruding the compositions, cutting the extrudates to lengths, mixing the cut extrudates together and, while they are mixed, maintaining them at an elevated temperature at which they are plastic and may be fused together tightly, and compacting and extruding them to a variegated detergent bar form, which may be subsequently pressed into variegated detergent cakes, such as soap cakes.
  • the base detergent composition e.g., a white soap
  • a colored soap is plodded by a different plodder into the section of a variegating head around such tubes, after which both soaps are extruded at similar velocities into a mixing and contacting section of the variegating head, wherein they are cut to lengths and a whirling motion is imparted to the cut pieces by a rotating cutter.
  • an apparatus which may be used in practicing the process, including a variegating head containing the mentioned tubes, means for fastening the inlet portions thereof to the plodders, temperature control means and cutting and whirling means for distributing one soap or detergent through the other before fiinal plodding.
  • This invention is of a process for making variegated detergent bars and cakes. More particularly, it is of a method by which colored and uncolored soaps are blended together to produce desirably marbled, mottled or striped soaps of attractive and substantailly reproducible appearances.
  • an apparatus may be employed in which a special head is provided for removable aflixation to a pair of plodders, in which head the mixing of the soaps takes place and a variegated soap bar is produced.
  • Soap bars and cakes are presently commercially manufactured by substantially automatic methods wherein milled chips, flakes or ribbons produced from mixtures of soaps and other components are plodded and extruded as bars, which are subsequently cut to lengths and pressed into soap cakes or tablets. Often, to obtain best cohesiveness of the bar product the plodding operation takes place under vacuum so that air and other gases which might disrupt the continuity of the soap bar are removed. Soaps of different colors have been made by the addition of dyes and pigments to the soap composion components in a mixing or amalgamating step which antecedes the milling operation. In recent years a substantial proportion of toilet soaps and bath soaps manufactured have been colored by such method.
  • the marbling or other variegated patterns, obtained by addition of a coloring liquid in the plodder often differ greaterly between bars, depending on the particular movement in the plodder of the section of soap into which the dye has been incorporated.
  • the product obtained may be of a solid color, the resultant of the colors and proportions of the soaps charged.
  • attempts are made to blend the different colored soaps at a later point in a plodding operation they may be unsatisfactorily fused together, with the result that the user can note a roughness at the interfaces between the different colored soaps.
  • variegated soaps have not become as popular as might be expected from their attractive appearances.
  • white soap or a particular colored soap is the main material being made on a soap production line
  • interruption of such production to produce a variegated soap introduces a soap of a different color into the plodder.
  • the plodder will have to be cleaned thoroughly to avoid having objectionable specks of the colored soap appear in the next bars made.
  • the means for adding the dye or pigment will have to be thoroughly cleaned or completely removed from the plodder.
  • the cleaning procedure will also have to be undertaken on the amalgamator, mills rolls, bins, conveyors, elevators, chutes and other equipment with which the colored product comes into contact.
  • a process for the manufacture of a variegated detergent bar comprises producing a base detergent composition of one or more colors, producing a second detergent composition of one or more colors, at least one of which contrasts with or is distinguishable from at least one of the color(s) of the first composition, and is of a solubility about that of the first composition, adjusting the temperature(s) of the first and second compositions so that they are about the same and are sufiiciently elevated so that both compositions are plastic solids, passing both compositions at such an elevated temperature along substantially parallel paths with the path(s) of one composition being substantially within the path(s) of the other composition but with the compositions being out of contact with each other, forcing the 3 compositions through separate openings, producing interspersed extrusions of different colors, cutting off the extruded materials in short lengths, mixing together such short lengths of extrudates and, while maintaining the mixed materials at an elevated temperature at which they are plastic and may be fused together tightly,
  • a variegating head adapted to be fastened to a plurality of means for feeding plastic solid detergent compositions, at least one of which is colored diiferently from another, said variegating head including a plurality of passageways for one of the detergent compositions to be passed through but out of contact with another of said compositions in a surrounding zone, with a plurality of exit openings from the passageways and surrounding zone, through which filaments or rods of the diiferent detergent compositions can pass, means for cutting the rods or filaments into short lengths after extrusion through said openings, means for imparting to the rods or filaments a transverse or whirling motion, a mixing and compacting zone in which the rods and or filaments are further mixed, compacted and fused together tightly, and means for extrusion of the plastic detergent composition from the mixing and compacting zone, to form a variegated detergent billet or bar.
  • FIG. 1 is a partially schematic, partially sectional view of a plurality of soap plodders of a soap production line, the last of which plodders is equipped with a variegating head for the production of variegated plodder bars;
  • FIG. 2 is a central vertical sectional view of the variegating head of FIG. 1, affixed to and in operative relationship with two of the soap plodders of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a front perspective view of a portion of the variegating head of FIGS. 1 and 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a disassembled view of the variegating head portion of FIG. 3, with the cutter thereof removed;
  • FIG. 5 is a top view of a variegated detergent tablet pressed from a bar made according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the tablet of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of said tablet
  • FIG. 8 is a top plan view of a striped detergent tablet made with the illustrated apparatus but without imparting a whirling motion to the mixed colored rods or filaments in the variegating head;
  • FIG. 9 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the tablet of FIG. 8.
  • FIG. 10 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View of the tablet of FIGS. 8 and 9.
  • FIG. 1 In FIG. 1 are illustrated plodders 11, 13, and 15, which, in combination with variegating head 17, make up an apparatus for producing a variegated detergent bar 19, seen emerging from variegating head 17, from which it is moving toward the viewer.
  • mixing and feeding tank 21 there is a solution of a dye or a dispersion of a water dispersible pigment 23 in an aqueous medium. It is maintained uniform by stirrer 25 and is fed, continuously or intermittently, as desired, to hopper 27 through control valve 29.
  • Other means, not shown are provided for delivery of detergent chips, rods, powders or filaments to hopper 27 and such soap or other detergent is then fed through a plodder 11 with the aqueous coloring material 23.
  • a single barrel 31 is shown in the plodder with a single worm 33 but plural barrels may be used, with plural worms, preferably with vacuum, jacketing of the plodder barrel(s), speed control of the worm(s) and remote control of the feeding of the coloring solution or dispersion.
  • perforated pressure plate 34 which may be equipped with a screen (not shown) to remove any foreign matter and better mix the soap or detergent constituents together, the filaments or rods which exit from the plodder are cut by a revolving knife 35 and fall into hopper 37 of plodder 13'.
  • the colored detergent, in rod or filament form, is carried by worm 39 upwardly through water jacketed plodder barrel 41 in which it is kept at a desired temperature for proper plasticity, which temperature is maintained due to a combination of the working of the detergent and covering of the plodder barrel with a jacket in which there is circulated water at a desired temperature.
  • the colored detergent is forced upwardly into variegating head 17, illustrated in more detail in FIG. 2.
  • Uncolored detergent rods or filaments are fed into the variegating head 17 from the main soap line plodder 15, after having been worked in plodder barrel 43.
  • Plodder 15 is a two-worm vacuum plodder with the vacuum being applied in the chamber between the exit from the upper worm and the entrance to the lower worm.
  • Plodder 15 is charged with detergent composition or soap chips through hopper 45.
  • the colored soap 47 passes through jacketed introductory connecting elbow 49, which is welded to a water jacketed cylinder 51.
  • Elbow 49 is held by bolted flanges 53 and 55 or other suitable means to plodder 13
  • body portion 52 of variegating head 17 is held to main line plodder 15 by pins and grooves, such as illustrated at 57 and 59, respectively.
  • the white soap or other contrasting soap from the main line plodder 15 may be forced through a screen 61 and a pressure plate 63 into plodder cone section 65 and thence into variegating head 17.
  • Tubes 69 are welded at both ends to framework or body 75 of the variegating head and have exit openings 77 at the ends thereof which regulate the sizes of filaments or rods being extruded from the parallel paths zone of the variegating head to a cutting and mixing zone thereof 79.
  • the zone about the parallel tubes is blanked off at the portions 81 nearer to the main line soap plodder but is open at orifices or exit openings 83 to produce filaments or rods of the colored detergent, which are sent through plate 85, together with the extrusions from the parallel tubes, past cutting knife 87 into cutting and mixing zone 79.
  • the base composition is moving substantially within the paths of the second composition, although out of physical contact with it.
  • the reverse situation is also true. Therefore, upon exiting from such zone the filaments, rods or particles of the two differently colored detergents are interspersed as they are forced through the openings in plate 85 and into the cutting and mixing portion of the variegating head. Because such head is filled with detergent composition being extruded through nozzle 89 therein, a fairly regular striped pattern would be produced if the rods or filaments being extruded through plate 85 were uncut or not given transverse, radial or whirling movements.
  • a rotating cutter 87 is employed. This is moved by shaft 93 which is connected to the rotating worm of plodder 15.
  • the knife may have from one to 12 blades (in the illustration it has three blades).
  • the surfaces which contact the extruded material are thick, generally being from 0.5 to 2 cm. thick so that they will not just slide past the extruded rods but will push them or whirl them radially transversely through the moving mass of soap or detergent composition, thereby causing them to be spread out transversely and promoting the creation of the desired mottled or marblized appearance of the detergent in the cutting and mixing zone of the variegating head.
  • impeller 95 attached by shaft 97 to shaft 93, also rotates and further aids in producing the desired marblized soap.
  • this second whirling device may be mounted to rotate freely as the soap is forced past it, whereby transverse motion may be given to the soap.
  • partially radially inclined passageways in a stationary whirling device may have a similar desired effect. In either case, the distance between such means and the cutting and whirling means previously mentioned will normally be from to 25 cm.
  • the rest of the cutting and mixing section of the variegating head may be like a conventional jacketed plotter nozzle but is preferably of a somewhat different design.
  • a tapered nose section like most conventional plodders, it will preferably have a rather short nose and the taper will be more extreme.
  • This design helps to prevent streaking of the product during extrusion through nozzle 89.
  • Nozzle 89 may be equipped with a nozzle plate, which can be heated, electrified, cooled or otherwise treated to promote best extrusion of the desired detergent bar.
  • skinning knives 99 which remove surfaces from the plodder and expose better variegated interior detergent portions which, when subsequently pressed, make a more attractive marblize'd bar product.
  • the cutting and pressing may be so effected as to create a bar having a longitudinal grain or one extending transversely through the thickness or width of the bar. Generally, however, it is preferred to have the grain longitudinal, since products so made are less apt to exhibit bad wet cracking during use.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the parallel paths zone or feeding portion of the variegating head with the inlet elbow from the colored soap plodder attached.
  • the head has been rotated about 90 from the position of FIG. 2.
  • the various parts designated have the same meanings as previously described in conjunction with FIG. 2.
  • the inlet and outlet lines to the Water jacket are indicated by numerals 101 and 103, respectively.
  • Cutting blades 105, 107 and 109 are shown with greater clarity, as is the hub 111 to which they are joined, forming cutter 91.
  • the cutting and mixing section of the variegating head is joined to the parallel paths zone portion at flange 85, by conventional means, and is separable from it.
  • FIGS. 5-7 are shown various views of a marblized soap bar made by the method of the present invention.
  • the second impeller or mixing device in the cutting and mixing head of the variegating means is omitted, since suflicient transverse or whirling motion of the colored soap particles is obtained with the first mixing device.
  • the colored soap is satisfactorily dispersed throughout the soap bar, on the face thereof, at 115 and throughout the bar, as at 117 and 119.
  • the white soap base or matrix 121 surrounds the colored soap and, as it wears down during use, exposes new surfaces of the colored detergent, so that the marblized appearance is substantially constant during use.
  • FIGS. 8-10 corresponding views are given of a bar made from substantially the same charges of white and colored soaps but the cutting knife and mixer utilized in the cutting and mixing head to make the products of FIGS. 5-7 were removed before processing. Thus, the product resulting is striped, with the colored soap extending substantially longitudinally through the bar.
  • numeral 123 represents the colored striping detergent and numeral 125 is the base soap.
  • the detergent composition employed is preferably a white or a light colored soap but may be any other suitable detergent, either anionic, cationic, nonionic or amphoteric or blend thereof, providing that it is normally solid at room temperature, and is capable of being plasticized during manufacture so that a cohesive bar product may be obtained.
  • the colored or contrasting detergent or soap should possess similar properties and be sufficiently compatible with the base so as not to result in degradation of either portion of the final bar due to objectionable oxidation or other reactions.
  • a white base and a contrasting marblizing or variegating charge mixtures of differently colored soaps or detergents may be used for each and more than two different colored materials may be employed.
  • the base may be of several colors, as may be the dispersed detergent composition.
  • the synthetic organic detergents and soaps are very well known, and are set forth in detail in the text, Synthetic detergents, Vol. II, by Schwartz, Perry and Berch, published in 1958 by Interscience Publishers, Inc., the most preferred of these are the alkali metal salts of straight chain higher fatty alcohol sulfuric acids; the alkali metal salts, particularly the sodium salts, of higher linear alkyl benzene sulfonic acids; the sodium, potassium and ammonium salts of higher fatty acid monoglyceride sulfuric acids, e.g., those of 14 to 18 carbon atoms in the fatty acid groups; the solid Pluronics, condensation polymers of ethylene oxide with the condensate of propylene glycol and propylene oxide; and the alkali metal sulfates of ethoxylated higher fatty alcohols.
  • the soaps employed are those which are standard in commercial production today, blends of alkali metal soaps, preferably sodium soaps, of tallow and coconut oily fatty acids, or equivalent materials. Normally these will comprise from 50 to of tallow and from 10 to 50% of coconut oil fatty acid soaps. Preferred are those of 10 to 40% coconut oil soap and 60 to 90% tallow soap.
  • both the uncolored and colored soaps should be essentially the same.
  • they should be plastic within the same temperature ranges, usually somewhat elevated, and should have essentially the same water solubilities, etc., so that they may hold together tightly and not preferentially dissolve in use, leaving ridges and inequalities in the product.
  • the compositions of the continuous and dispersed phases will be from 90 to the same.
  • laboratory, small ,scale and large scale production plodders may be employed. These may have speedcontrols, torque regulators, heating or cooling jackets, thermal controls,
  • the variegating head equipped, in accordance with this invention, with structural elements for carrying out the process by which the desirably marblized or variegated detergent bar is produced.
  • the head has a plurality of passageways, preferably tubular, and most preferably cylindrical, which are of internal diameters of from 0.4 or 0.5 to 2 centimeters and will usually be from 10 to 50 centimeters long.
  • These tubes will form a number of parallel passageways, generally from 3 to 100 and P eferably from 5 to 50 through the parallel passageway zone of the variegating head.
  • the passageways may be terminated by orifices thatare smaller than the tubes and such exit openings may be from 0.5 to millimeters, with one or more openings per tube.
  • the exist openings from the zone about the tubes may be in the same size range and of approximately the same number, although this is variable, depending on the degree of marblizing desired.
  • the effective area of the total number of orifices for the tube section will be from 50 to 95%, preferably from 80 to 90% of the total orifice area, including the exit orifices from the surrounding zone.
  • the variegating head may be arranged so that the colored soap is directed through the tubes and the base about it.
  • the tubes while preferably straight and parallel to one another, may pursue different paths so long as the essential path of the soaps passing through them is one which, at least toward the end of the journey, parallels the paths surrounding material being extruded.
  • the variegating head For best operation of the variegating head to produce a most desirable design, it is normally preferred to have from 50 to 95% of one soap or detergent composition and the balance of another. However, plural components may be employed with adjustments of such proportions correspondingly made.
  • soaps the sodium soaps of higher fatty acid are preferred and these are desirably plastic when they contain from 5 to 25% moisture, on a total basis. Nevertheless, soaps of moistures up to about 30%, e.g., floating soaps, may also be used.
  • the soaps will usually be from 80 to 90% of sodium soaps of such higher fatty acids.
  • the temperatures of the water or oil jackets employed about the plodders and the variegating head will usually be in the range of from 30 to 60 C.
  • This range will be from 30 to 50 C. for the plodding operations and from 40 to 60 C. for the mixing, compacting and extrusion operations effected in the variegating head.
  • the temperature of the soap, for best plodding and fusion will be from about 35 C. to 55 C., most preferably from 38 C. to 45 C.
  • a plasticizer such as water, glycerol, polyoxyethylene glycol, sorbitol, other dior polyhydric alcohol of 2 to 10 carbon atoms and 2 to 6 hydroxyls, petrolatum, paraffin, stearic acid, other higher fatty acid of 10 to 18 carbon atoms, or a hydrotropic compound, such as sodium xylene sulfonate, potassium cumene sulfonate, sodium benzene sulfonate or other lower alkyl-substituted benzene sulfonate may be added to the detergent composition to improve the bonding strength thereof.
  • water, glycerine, potassium soap and sodium toluene sulfonate will be used together or in various subcombinations.
  • pressures reached in the plodders and in the extrusion heads may be from 50 to 500 lbs/sq. in. although it will usually be preferred to operate in the lower part of this range.
  • Vacuum in the plodder may be anysubatmospheric pressure but will preferably be from 1- mm. to 300 mm. of Hg absolute, with the lower portions of this range being preferred to deaerate the soaps. Such vacuum will be employed, preferably, in all of the plodders being used. Motor speeds, worm pitches, diameters and root diameters may vary but usually will not depart much from those which are conventional in the usual soapmaking operations.
  • worm speeds of 2 to 50 rpm, preferably 5 to 35 rpm are generally employed.
  • the worm may be of a diameter from two inches to 16 inches or even more, in some cases, but preferably will be between four and ten inches in diameter.
  • the length of the worm and the barrel will usually be from three feet to ten feet.
  • Throughputs of soap may be from as little as one pound per minute to fifty or one hundred pounds per minute, depending on equipment sizes.
  • emboidments of apparatuses for practicing the invention are considered to be most preferred, variations therein can be made, some of which have already been mentioned. Instead of feeding the colored soap to the variegating head from underneath, this may be effected from the top or side and sometimes, different and attractive patterns result from such variation. Instead of utilizing single barrel plodders for the auxiliary equipment, double barrel plodders may be employed. In replacement of the second impeller or propeller in the variegating head fixed vanes may be used for giving additional transverse movements to the differently colored detergent compositions. Materials of construction may be varied, depending on the composition of the detergent being processed.
  • auxiliary plodders may be mounted on rollers, which may be locked when they are being used to feed the main plodder.
  • Quick disconnect fittings may be used between the various plodders.
  • the variegating head is preferably very easily removable so that it may be inspected and conditions therein altered to change the variegating pattern, when desired. Other modifications which are desirable to utilize in certain situations will be apparent to those of skill in the art.
  • the various plodders are connected together, as illustrated in FIG. 1, with the variegating head in position, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Sufficient dye or pigment dispersion is fed to produce a colored soap and this is passed through an auxiliary plodder to the variegating head. Speeds of the worms in the auxiliary and principal plodders are regulated so that both colored and un-colored soaps are fed in correct porportion desired, for example, about colored soap and 90% uncolored. Temperatures in the various heating jackets, preferably heating all the equipment, are regulated and heating fluids are flowed through them at sufficient rates to maintain the soaps at the desired temperature throughout.
  • the colored and uncolored soaps enter the parallel path portion of the variegating head.
  • the openings in the plate and in the screen adjacent to the end of the parallel paths portion are so chosen as to allow the proper feeding of the colored and uncolored soaps through them at the same linear speed. If it should be apparent that the rates of feeds are disproportionate and result in the moving of one soap past the other, thereby causing streaking and preventing good compacting, modifications of the screen sizes or the feed rates may be made.
  • the soaps are then cut by the revolving knifepusher and are given a transverse or radial motion outward from the hub of the knife.
  • the plodder bars or billets made will be skinned after plodding to reveal most attractive surfaces, this is not always necessary and sometimes may not be desirable. However, if surface shaving is effected the shavings may be re- 10 turned to the first plodder in which soap is being colored, thus avoiding any waste.
  • the advantages of the present invention are many. It is simple to operate and results in variegated soaps of reproducible designs. Because the soaps are given the same speed when being brought through the variegating head into the cutting and mixing portions thereof (also referred to as the mixing and compacting section), flow is more uniform and the soaps are fused together better. Yet, especially if the auxiliary plodding equipment is portable, the line may quickly be returned to ordinary use. It is easy to adjust the design produced. For example, by changing of the knife-pusher or removal of it, different marbilized or granite effects may be obtained and by removing it a striped soap product may be produced.
  • EXAMPLE 1 A marbled soap of the type illustrated in FIGS. 5-7 is made by utilizing the equipment of FIGS. 1-4.
  • the soap base comprises 95.7% sodium soap of a fat charge of 62% beef tallow and 38% coconut oil; 4% distilled palm oil fatty acids; and 0.3% of antioxidants, sequestrants (EDTA) and stabilizers.
  • the soap initially of a moisture content of about 33% (kettle soap), is dried to a moisture content of about 10.6%. It is then ready to be used as a soap base for a marblized product.
  • the colored soap so produced is fed into the variegating head through the second auxiliary plodder and the base soap is fed through the main plodder, in proportion of 7 :93.
  • the production rate employed, while it may be varied, is about 30 lbs./ min. and the feed rates are adjusted accordingly.
  • the various pieces of equipment are jacketed, with the worms of the plodders being water jacketed and with the water therein being held at a temperature of 25-35 C.
  • the jacket on the variegating head is filled with oil at 45-60" C.
  • the main plodder worm revolves at about 10 r.p.m., as does the three-bladed cutting knife employed.
  • the openings through which the soaps pass into the variegating head are within the range of 2 to 5 mrn., proportional in cross-sectional area to the 93:7 ratio of the soaps employed.
  • the cutting knife is 1 cm. thick.
  • the second circulating impeller is not employed.
  • the soap temperature is maintained at about 40 C. and in the variegating head this is raised to about 45 C. Trimmings from the shaving device at the nozzle plate are recycled back to the coloring plodder.
  • the base soap passes through the tubular passageways, which number approximately 50, each of which is of a diameter of about 1 cm. From the pipes and surrounding area outlets of 2 to 5 mm. diameter lead to the cutting and mixing zone of the 1 l variegating head. These number about 130, with approximately half being outlets from the tubes.
  • EXAMPLE 2 A wide variety of soaps of mixed colors is produced by utilizing other coloring materials than the described Water dispersible pigment.
  • pigments and dye such as Blue Iragon L/UD (Geigy); 1390 Pink GT Vat Red No. 1 (D. F. Anstead, Ltd); C. I. Pigment Green 7 (Geigy, Sandoz); C. I. Pigment Red 6 (Geigy) are employed.
  • Soapor Water-soluble dyes are also used to obtain a more diffused variegated product and in some cases, a mixture of the pigments and dyes are employed.
  • the soap composition is varied to 85% tallow soap and 15% coconut oil soap, with no addition of fatty acids.
  • the moisture content of the soap is 14% and the proportions of colored and uncolored or differently colored soaps are varied over the range from 50:50 to 5:95, preferably 25:75 to 5:95.
  • the products obtained are all variegated, marblized soaps of attractive appearances. In each case, by removal of the cutter-mixer, striped soaps are made.
  • EXAMPLE a The procedures of Examples 1 and 2 are repeated but with the base soap also being colored and of a contrasting color with that of the colored soap fed by the auxiliary plodders. Coloring of the base soap is effected with water-soluble and soap-soluble dyes which are added to the kettle soap before removal of the moisture therefrom, so that the colors are uniformly distributed, preferably making pastel shades.
  • the products made are attractive marbilized soaps in which the contrasts are usually subdued than those of Examples 1 and 2, when the dyes or pigments employed for both charged are of similar or compatible colors.
  • the products made are tested by practical washing tests and found to be satisfactorily bonded together. They do not wash away unevenly and are not rough or pebbly after use.
  • plasticizing agents such as Water, hydrotrope salt, oil or glycerol, or mixture thereof, the bond is further improved and the surface of the bar after washing is even smoother. Also, penetration of the colored soap into the other soap is improved.
  • EXAMPLE 4 The experiments of Examples l-3 are repeated with 30% of the soap replaced by sodium lauryl sulfate or with 70% of the soap replaced by a mixture of magnesium stearate and linear higher alkyl benzene sulfonate, sodium salt. Such synthetic detergent-soap combination bars are also produced in marblized form and have the desirable cohesiveness and Washing properties previously mentioned.
  • a process for the manufacture of a variegated detergent bar which comprises producing a base detergent composition of one or more colors, producing a second detergent composition of one or more colors, at least one of which contrasts with or is distinguishable from at least one of the color(s) of the first composition and is of a solubility about that of the first composition, adjusting the temperature(s) of the first and second compositions so that they are about the same and are sufiiciently elevated so that both compositions are plastic solids, passing both compositions at such an elevated temperature along substantially parallel paths with the path (s) of one composition being substantially within the path(s) of the other composition but with the compositions being separated from each other so as to be out of physical contact but with heat being able to pass from one to the other while they are out of physical contact with each other, forming the compositions into filaments or rods and bringing them into physical moving contact While maintaining their paths substantially parallel, cutting off the filaments or rods in equal short lengths and simultaneously giving them transverse motions and mixing them together and, while maintaining the mixed
  • first and second compositions are separately plodded, with temperature control, into a zone in which they pursue substantially parallel paths, with the paths of one composition being of circular cross-section and straight, the filaments or rods produced, after and during cutting are moved transversely while being mixed with other short lengths of such filaments and rods of different color and being fused together with them, the compacted mass is extruded to produce a marblized detergent bar, and said bar is cut to length and is pressed into final detergent cake form.
  • the soap base comprises from about to of the final marblized soap cake
  • the second soap comprises the balance thereof
  • the soaps each comprise from about 80 to 99% of sodium soaps of higher fatty acids, on an anhydrous basis, and from to moisture, on a total product basis
  • at least one of the soaps is plasticized with a

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US3976736A (en) * 1974-03-11 1976-08-24 Avon Products, Inc. Soap bar manufacture
US4141947A (en) * 1975-01-09 1979-02-27 Colgate-Palmolive Company Continuous process for making variegated soap
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US4041119A (en) * 1975-07-16 1977-08-09 Colgate-Palmolive Company Method for producing variegated soap
US4196163A (en) * 1977-05-14 1980-04-01 Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien (Henkel Kgaa) Production of stripped soap strands and apparatus for its production
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US4769193A (en) * 1985-07-18 1988-09-06 Colgate-Palmolive Company Apparatus with trimming plate and method for making soap
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